Trust your intuition. This age-old advice, so simple in theory, often proves profoundly difficult to put into practice. We’re constantly pulled outward by an ever-present connection to external forces—the relentless hum of technology, the cacophony of others’ opinions, and the carefully curated portrayals of life and success on social media. This constant external pull inadvertently stifles our essential connection to what matters most within ourselves: our intuition, our gut instincts, that quiet, certain knowing deep within our souls. The good news? You can re-establish this vital connection and learn to trust your intuition again. It just takes small acts of awareness and faith to begin.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other
people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your
own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow
your heart and intuition.
Hearing Intuition Through the Noise of Modern Society
We live surrounded by input.
Metrics. Strategies. Forecasts. Opinions from others, delivered with boisterous confidence.
Our calendars fill. Our minds fill. And somewhere in those crowded quarters of overdoing, we lose the intimate connection with our inner guidance system, making it harder to truly trust your intuition.
There is a knowingness inside each of us that can move worlds. In fact, our intuition has guided every brave decision we have ever made.
Intuition is not a mystical gift reserved for a chosen few. It is pattern recognition shaped by our lived experience. It is our nervous system processing data faster than our conscious minds can explain.
It is the spacious, buoyant feeling in our bodies when something or someone aligns, and the tension that rises when something drifts off course.
To unlock and trust your intuition, you must create space.
Space in your schedule. Space in your thinking. Space between the questions and your answers.
When faced with a decision, pause before gathering more input. Instead, notice your first internal response. Do you feel expansion or contraction? Energy or heaviness? Curiosity or resistance?
Our bodies often know before our intellect assembles its argument.
Trust begins with small acts. Follow your instinct in low-risk situations.
Choose the collaborator who feels aligned. Decline the opportunity that looks impressive yet drains you. Ship the idea that excites you, even if it feels vulnerable.
Each time we honor those inner signals, we strengthen the muscle.
Fear will still speak to us, loudly. (Fear is enormously skilled at storytelling.) It will predict failure, rejection, embarrassment.
Intuition speaks to us with a different tone and phrasing that feels sweet, kind. It offers us clarity without drama. It points rather than pushes.
Leaders who trust themselves create companies with spine. Creators who trust themselves produce work with originality. Entrepreneurs who trust themselves build paths that did not exist before they walked them.
There will always be outside forces that tempt us into straying from following our North Star.
Markets shift. Opinions multiply. Trends rise and fall.
Our intuition is the compass that remains when the maps of the terrain of our lives become outdated, no longer fitting with our souls’ desires.
The practice is simple, though not always easy. Slow down long enough to hear yourself. Notice what brings energy and what drains it. Make decisions that feel coherent in your body.
Act. Reflect. Adjust.
Think of a decision you are currently postponing. Write freely for ten minutes answering this question: If no one could advise me, judge me, or see my choice, what would I decide and why does that choice feel alive in my body?
Our lives and work are too precious to be shaped by borrowed thinking that is making us miserable, holding us back.
As a creator, the most powerful strategy you will ever develop is self-trust. When you learn to recognize and follow your inner guidance and truly trust your intuition, you stop building someone else’s vision (or life) and begin building your own.
